Painful Sounds In Music

I like it, but what do I know?

 

More power to you. It's a great song otherwise! I'm sensitive to this sort of very loud snapping or screechy sounds but I'm aware I am in the minority.

 

Screeching noise at the end of the Talking Drum going into Lark Tongue in Aspic 2 track on the King Crimson LTIA album can be tough if you are playing at loud volume.

 

The intentional distortion at the end of this otherwise awesome remix has me running for the skip button every time:

 

If these sounds are prevalent across different masterings/media, I'd say it was possibly an artistic choice. Something to ponder.

 

How does it compare to previous masterings?

 

Wow, that was annoying, and I am just listening at low volume on my Chromebook.

 

A good tubed headphone amp with the HD650 and a good smooth (not bright) DAC will make it less annoying. Feedback like in that Robin Trower track is always going to be somewhat annoying. Good tube style gear and good source gear can make it less piercing annoying.

 

A test for me to find out if gear is too bright or has glare is to listen to violin recordings. I can listen to a live violin up close (played by a good professional) and the sound will not make me wince or make me think it's too bright or has any glare. If good violin recordings make me wince or if they sound bright or like there is glare then that is a big clue that there is something wrong with the sound of the amp and/or DAC and/or headphones.

 

Exactly. No idea if anything could have been done at the mixing stage but I remember this being a soundboard recording of a show that was broadcast on the radio. It wasn't initially an official release. Bootlegs circulated until the demand caught the attention of the record label who put it out officially.

Therefore, I have no idea if the source was sophisticated enough to allow for a volume change at that specific section of the song or not but the end result is a much louder painful sound ruining the end of what is IMHO a perfect song.

 

I have a Line Magnetic 508IA with all carefully selected NOS tubes and gravitate towards a warm laid-back sound. Nothing can tame that type of sound unless it's at the source, really.

 

That sort of feedback sound is always going to be annoying to some degree. A tube amp with a laid-back style of sound can help make it less annoying than a solid state amp that has a brightish sound and a forward aggressive presentation.

 

I'll agree with that. I just wish jarring sounds like those would be tamed if possible. They don't enhance the listening experience, that's for sure...

 

It's the nature of rock. Suck it up like a man. Or switch to chamber music.

 

An artistic choice to auditorily torture you?

Lol.

 

Wow, and it is annoying at low volume. You "wait for it" then get on with the rest of the song. A more recent remaster may have tamed this.

 

Donna Godchaux

 

Not nice!

 

It was meant in jist, of course

 

Ya, her voice ain't...

 

The PRO USE Japanese Reissue of DSOTM is one of my best examples of this on vinyl.
Guitar solos are very emphasized, hot and sharp and I have to turn down the volume evey time, otherwise its a great alternative reissue, if you have the cash and gear to play it.

Also, The United States of America - S/T has some sharp psychadelic sound effects that get annoying at high volume.

 

Not a problem on my MoFi copy, what do you listen to generally?

 

I sometimes check the region of a song that has ear piercing, unnaturally textured high frequencies in Audacity's Spectrum Analysis listening on my my Mac Mini/Sony MDR V6 headphones. Any peaks in the 8kHz-12kHz that goes above -48db (usually by as much as 6db with overall flat peak response from bass to highs) I do a slow and gradual analog volume increase/decrease using OS volume slider to listen for non-linear jumps or roll off characteristics in these sounds.

That's when I know it's the data, not my system that's the problem.

 

I listen to the Hoffman mastered CD. The screech is not as prominent as the youtube clip, but it's still there. Maybe MoFi removed it?

 

Nope, not removed. Listening to the whole album now just because ;^)
Its there, but not annoying to me really.